Unified framework for developing testing effort dependent software reliability growth models

WSEAS Transactions on Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 521-531

  Kapur, P K ^a   Shatnawi, Omar ^b   Aggarwal, Anu G ^a   Kumar, Ravi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b AL AL BAYT UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Convolution; Error generation; Imperfect debugging; Probability distribution function; Software reliability growth model; Testing effort function

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION PATTERNS; CPU TIME; DATA ANALYSIS; ERROR GENERATION; FAULT REMOVAL; GROWTH CURVES; IMPERFECT DEBUGGING; MODEL SELECTION; REALISTIC MODELING; RELIABILITY GROWTH; SOFTWARE FAILURE; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODEL; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODELS; TEST CASE; TESTING EFFORT; TESTING EFFORT FUNCTION; TESTING ENVIRONMENT; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CONVOLUTION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FAULT DETECTION; PROBABILITY; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 67849086885     PISSN: 11092777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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